The Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death, has been subjected to mock executions in Evin prison in Iran.
That is what the close friend and fellow prisoner Siamak Namazi writes The Guardian.
“He opened up about his darkest days, he told how the prison guards took him to the brink of execution”.
After the prisoner exchange on June 15, the Swedish-Iranian doctor and KI researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, 55, is still in the unknown Iranian prison.
In a text in The Guardian, the businessman and friend Siamak Namazi now describes his relationship with the death row in Evin Prison, where he himself was imprisoned for many years.
“On rare occasions he opened up about his darkest days. He told how the prison guards brought him to the brink of execution. One morning his sadistic jailers said he would be hanged at sunrise the next day and gave him what they called a last call to his wife to say goodbye,” writes Namazi, who was released from Evin Prison after eight years.
Death call to wife
Djalali’s wife, Vida Mehrannia, confirms the information for The Express.
– Ahmadreza called us to say goodbye, they had said he would be executed. It is just one example of the cruelty of the Iranian regime. I hope this article can contribute to his release.
Since 2016, Djalali has been imprisoned in Iran. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has repeatedly said that they tried to get Djalali to be included in the exchange but that it did not work.
– We did everything we could and we absolutely did not abandon him, he told TV4 on Monday morning.